Archive for May, 2008

Public Education on Trial

At the 1987 Future of Freedom Conference in California we discussed education malpractice. I was involved with pursuing the topic: Public Education on Trial.
Below are some excerpts from our brochure:
 
The world is very much as described in Orwell’s 1984.
However, on a small secret island, SANOS, live several hundred people, mostly of the libertarian persuasion. Having detected – […]

School Boards Suspicious of Independent-Minded Parents

Abolishing school boards should lead to parents being the governors of their own individual schools. Yes, like the one-room school house of old.
Trustees would be the parents in that school – not a host of “civic-minded” politicians, often teachers and teacher union activists. Parents would be the overseers of school quality and achievement, the ones to […]

Teacher Unions Can Bankrupt School Boards via Legal Challenges

Continuing to add to my online archives about school reform efforts over the last 40 years I found the following letter to the Editor from 1986.
Letter of the Day, North Shore News, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 19/86
Every School Needs its OWN Trustees
Parents have despaired for years about the lack of quality control in the […]